." This is the only display in Shanghai where you'll see some trendy boys," joked a friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai collections. "You'll view appealing females and traditional Mandarin Tai Tai's [an idiomatic phrase for a prosperous, wedded woman], those type of models, but only right here you'll get hot guys!" The place for Lee's balmy train of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a brand-new location earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer who introduced his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons. He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Award as well as was actually the very first menswear developer to gain the H&M Layout Award that very same year. Lee possesses a decent allotment of well-earned standing, however eats years moved relatively discreetly, shrouded due to the roomy nightclub culture atmosphere that has actually long notified his clothes.This selection, Lee said backstage, was loosely influenced by the maturing tales in the Eastern cult film All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the tip of individual transformation, and also appeared to accept the tensions of being younger-- feeling unyielding, developing a sense of nostalgia, the stress of capacity-- through building a collection that predicted some special awkwardness.If none of this particular sounds specifically alluring or like a wardrobe ready for an excellent event, it's given that Lee's key preoccupation isn't magnetism, and also neither is actually the nightclub. Some traits happen normally, however, so his plan teemed with audacious and also indisputably great menswear types: small pants, one-shoulder covered tops or adorned tank tops, shiny shirting, as well as a set of glossy underwear that a fellow guest showed up component a built-in jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar and cool button-downs were the best compelling: The short sleeves on one were in fact outfit tee shirt cuffs, while an additional's were actually knitted to longer boards to generate whole sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee's go back to the runway in Shanghai. "This time has actually been testing yet it felt significant to perform a series due to the fact that I intend to really feel honored," he mentioned. Lee had been showing his assortment through lookbook as well as in showrooms. While it is actually great to become capable to view his work up close-- don't permit the barely-thereness of Lee's garments deceive you, he's very the nimble technological professional-- these clothing are actually all best experienced in situation. The after-party that observed the program took place in the very same area: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift path had been actually earlier and the fashion group event outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy and also memorable period, it was a chance to demonstrate to Lee's company of urban, rave-ready eroticism completely throttle..